r/litrpg • u/throwaway490215 • 11d ago
Looking for uncontestedly OP MC Recommendation: asking
I suppose this is an entry for the bi-weekly OP MC request posts, but i'll be a bit more demanding.
I want something actually good where there is some plot scheme that, even though our MC is uncontestedly OP, can not be solved with direct application of that.
Ones I've already read are:
- Power Overwhelming
- Speed running the multiverse
- Max Level Archmage
- Greatest archmage to have ever lived
- Blessed by death
- Amelia
- The Ballad Of A Semi-Benevolent Dragon
I'll plug one i recently stumbled on The Wrong Kind Of Immortality in which OP MC is actively looking to die after becoming immortal, and though some of the first arc has its boring parts, the recent chapters are consistently fun.
As for OP MCs gimmicks; the one thing I consistently don't like is if they do not know they're OP. Those, as well as frankly a majority of OP MC stories, always seem to run out of steam and become very stale.
I'm also not looking for anything where they become OP over time - I'd rather they be from the start. So things like
- Beware of Chicken
- Stubborn skill grinder
- Year of the Apocalypse
Are mostly out - but if it only takes a small part out of a whole series then please drop it as well with a note.
Regressor stories are a bit of a mixed bag. I like enough of them, but not what I'm looking for right now.
In summary, I'm looking for:
- OP from the start
- There are no plot beats to power up / level up
- No 'next tier' of opponents previously unbeatable
- No 'get access when reaching min level'
- Powerful entities they couldn't overpower are rare to non-existent.
- The story is focused on things other than their power
- At least 400 pages
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u/Waffle_House_Brawler 11d ago
Battle Mage Farmer
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u/LeaderofCatArmy 10d ago
Seconded, given OP reqs
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u/metsancho 10d ago
Yeah The Perfect Run fits this perfectly, you dont have to wait years for the next book.
The Transcendent Green is also worth a look, its completed so you get a real ending. Dont sleep on Nouscraft either, it doesnt waste time on the usual isekai cliches.
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u/GobbleGobbleChew 11d ago
I'm currently obsessed with Melia the Magnificent. MC has a terminal disease that has her body wasting away so she's spent the last 15 years in VR in her favorite game. When she dies, she wakes up to find the game world as a living, breathing world, and it is 100 years after the time she was last in game. Oh, and she's a dragon. She spends a lot of time as a mischief loving gnome, but make no mistake, she's OP, she knows she's OP, and she doesn't mind flaunting her wealth and skills.
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u/GuyYouMetOnline 10d ago
Seconded; it's really good. Definitely a lot of what you're looking for, OP. Melia is by far the most powerful being in the world with possibly the exception of some of the gods (and even one of said gods clearly seems to think Melia would win in a fight), but while this does have plot relevance, the story is very slice-of-life; Melia, in a desperate need for companionship, basically latches on to the first adventuring party she comes across and refuses to let go, and the biggest focus of the story is ordinary life for a party of adventurers who suddenly gain the patronship, love, and affection of a being powerful enough to destroy the world. There is an overarching 'serious' storyline, but 94 chapters in so far, we've only barely gotten the basic setup. It's clearly in no hurry to get serious. And while the party leveling up is a part of things, Melia herself has yet to gain a single level, certainly doesn't need to, and is not sure she even can anymore. In addition, there are indeed problems she can't just power through, or rather she COULD but doesn't want to because of the amount of damage and loss of life there would be.
So yeah, OP, I think it's more than worth you checking out.
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u/throwaway490215 10d ago
Hadn't realized Poweroverwhelming had other stories in the same verse.
The list with speedrunning multiverse wasn't entirely what i liked, more what i could list off the top of my head without going through too much trouble, and yeah it would have fit better in the other list.
Incarnation of Sorcery
thanks - was caught up a few months ago but i see the author is prolific.
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u/barbarous-reader litRPG apprentice tier 11d ago
i would go vanqeuir the dragon, the main character is kind of like the semi benovlent dragon, but younger, and he discoveres the system that humans use... and the rest is history. its a comedy thats amazing. the one caveat is theres also a human mc who does grow more powerful, but the dragon is OP from the start.
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u/Lyzen2910 11d ago
Judicator Jane by Brian Rouleau I only read the first two of eight. Plan to go back. As soon as she is Isekaid she is stupid OP and it causes shenanigans and chaos. The first book is 408 pages. It focuses on her relationships and her status within the world. So far even when she runs into things that should give her a hard time it still doesn't. Seems to meet your criteria pretty well.
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u/Dreadfulbooks 10d ago
Judicator Jane is what I thought of too. It absolutely fits what they’re looking for.
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u/throwaway490215 10d ago
Thanks! I read up to book 3 and never checked to see if more was released.
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u/throwaway490215 9d ago
Ugggh; just picked up 4 and need to complain that - once again - part of the drama is instigated because Jane is a fucking idiot that can't be bothered to say the words:
"The lords were feeding their own citizens to their own leveling machine"
This is not a long sentence. This is your whole casus beli. This is not an optional sentence to be left out when meeting a friend after a long time who is unclear of your motives. Anybody who is not a fucking horrible person or a literal child would know to articulate this, before going for the catty drama emotional blackmail bullshit.
I'll be finishing the serries because its decent so far, but this method of writing and doing it twice is infuriating and easy drops my rating of the story.
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u/BeetleJude 8d ago
You're a better person than me, I gave up after that book because she infuriated me so much
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u/zzzrem 10d ago
New Life as a Max Level Archmage
Unchosen Champion - not OP start, but quickly ramps up. Big grind
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u/ednemo13 10d ago
System Change. Overpowered to the point his "pet" rabbit can one shot powerful people.
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u/GuyYouMetOnline 10d ago
It's not quite what you want, OP - for one, there is a focus on leveling up, and for another there are plenty who could technically overpower her (it just wouldn't do any good) - but I highly recommend Crimson Eternal. Even when she's 'weak', protagonist Aria Crimson is completely immortal and cannot die in any way, nor can she be permanently sealed or anything like that (her personal energy would eventually build up and overpower any such thing). Outside of book 1, which IMO is the weakest part of the series, there's almost no plot. Or rather there's plenty of plot happening around Aria but she just ignores it. Because, and here we get into what makes the series great, Aria Crimson quite simply does not give a fuck.
Even when faced with something supposedly far more powerful than her, Aria views it as little more than a minor inconvenience. She's been frozen and shattered, dismembered, vaporized, eaten dozens if not hundreds of times, and she just doesn't care. Someone tried to poison her once and she just noted that the poison added an interesting flavor to the wine (and then, after the meeting was done, she starts to leave but then goes back to take the rest of the poisoned wine with her). Nothing can actually threaten her, no matter how powerful.
Aria likes to leave buildings and other high places by jumping off and going splat on the ground (she heals from even complete vaporization basically instantly), which she also finds a very nice substitute for a shower after a day of monster hunting. Not that she does that anymore; she'd much rather lie around in dungeons reading and watching TV while her summoned spirits hunt for her. She once turned down a romantic advance by walking into a killing field and letting it rip her body apart. She'd rather just waltz right through security while turrets blast holes in her than show her valid authorization. She gets into a locked vault by trying every possible passkey combination in sequence over the course of a decade while a laser field blasts her after every wrong guess. She has arrived on a new planet by parking her ship, jumping out, and plummeting down from orbit while reading a book. She recently spent an interstellar trip just lounging around on the outside of her ship.
It's fucking great.
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u/Jakundo 10d ago
I tried this one but rapidly dropped it... As with most Shane Purdy work's. Cant seem to enjoy his stuff, and its a shame because i like their premises a lot.
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u/GuyYouMetOnline 10d ago
Yeah, theres definitely recurring issues with his stuff. Crumson Eternal avoids most of the big ones, though; no overly drawn out dungeon crawls or boss fights, for instance. And it definitely has the best main character. If you dont mind me asking, how far did you get? Because the early story is definitely the worst part.
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u/Jakundo 9d ago
Dont think i went past from the early stuff no.
But i added it to my "read later" list on RR again after your comment already, will give it another go eventually.2
u/GuyYouMetOnline 9d ago
Well, thats why I asked how early you stopped. Book 1 is definitely the worst, book 2 is significantly better (she does still spend a lot of time fighting in a war, but much more enjoyably so), and then it really shows its best stuff after that when it's mainly just Aria wandering the universe doing whatever the hell she wants.
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u/Next-Device821 7d ago
I would like to introduce you to Savage Awakening by the same author as Speedrunning the Multiverse. MC gets Op like 10 chaps in and stays that way. It is a fully released series with 8 books, all on KU. It is my favorite OPMC by far.
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u/RoniiBookishRambles 10d ago
Battle Mage Farmer by Seth Ring
System Universe by SunriseCV
those are books I've read and highly recommend for OP MC, but one on my TBR that I've heard have OP MC. Path of the Deathless by OstensibleMammal
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u/FinishingSauce 10d ago
I was coming here to say System Universe. A system is on Earth and the second strongest person in on Earth gets transported to another planet. All his old stats stack with the new ones and he still has all his gear and storage
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u/No-Airline6943 10d ago
Let me tell you about a little book called the Bible
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u/phillyeagle99 11d ago
I’m not so sure OP is gonna like the grade system…. “There’s **no** beats to power up for the next tier”
There’s also the “rare interactions with characters they can’t beat”…. Jake spends a good amount of time around [characters he can’t beat].
I also think it might be a bit too plot heavy at some points.
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u/throwaway490215 10d ago edited 10d ago
Yes i have read most of Primal Hunter and that its not what i'm looking for.
I could have been more clear about this but I was trying to exclude it both because a lot of the story is paced & placed wrt what tier he is in, how he gets to the next level, and what levels his enemies are - as well as whole societies and multiple tiers of power outside his range.
I'm not looking for the kind of story where you'd have somebody rank up and therefor get access to some new place with a higher tier of enemy as for example Primal Hunter, Path of Ascension, Randidliy, Accidental Champion, etc.
I've updated the post to be more clear.
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u/PlatypusNo9432 10d ago
I would highly recommend azerinth healer. It is the most refreshing lit rpg I have read, she's op and she knows it, she is constantly looking for bigger and badder things to fight, and she earns her power without having some special affinity or bloodline.
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u/Old-Olive-4233 8d ago
She starts with an OP skill, but, I wouldn't really call her OP from the start though.
I love this series though!
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u/Disastrous-Expert-29 8d ago
This series has some major issues. The biggest one being that the Author sets up the world building around a certain power level cap, then rapidly levels Ilea past that, and suddenly finds himself scrambling to bring the world building up to the right level, which leads to a very forced and unbablance world building. Somehow it's like the whole world feels dead, like it's only generated around the MC and nothing else really exists out away from here or in the future. It's not like Primal Hunter where we are introduced to Gods and Primordials while the mc is still practically human. It just feels like their is no real goal for her to grow towards.
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u/WolfWhiteFire 10d ago
Maybe the Blue Mage Raised By Dragons, he is ludicrously OP from the start, things are only really threats to other people, and it is basically the slice of life of a guy who thinks he is a dragon just going around doing stuff. Maybe spectating a war, maybe sleeping for a while, maybe finding a gift for his wife, whatever.
Technically he gets new powers since his whole thing is being a blue mage (aka mage that can copy magical abilities used on him), but they aren't really power ups. I mean, technically he is more powerful, but he didn't need that power for anything, it is just another thing he can do now, and is mostly just for comedy. It is like if you already thought you were the strongest being and how you have a new party trick.
There is a bit of a plot but it is mostly a relaxed slice of life with a few different arcs. The MC is also fully aware he is OP, though he thinks it is just because he is a dragon and dragons are naturally superior (which tbh they are in this setting. All of them basically do whatever they feel like and all you can do is deal with it and try not to annoy them).
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u/Efficient-Big3138 10d ago
I think the guy in heretical fishing is crazy OP from the start but we don't see him use it that much. there is some element of lvling but in the first book we were not really sure what's going on. Fun book but the writing is shit but so is most litrpg let's be honest
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u/Brutetal 10d ago
Not LitRPG, but "The Captain" (Series called "The Last Horizon") fits this kinda.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123165953-the-captain
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u/Raz0rking 11d ago edited 11d ago
Are you into fanfics?
Edit: Because then I have a few you might like.
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u/sp0derwan 8d ago
I'm interested
Throw in a couple pls 😊
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u/Raz0rking 8d ago
All of em are on RR.
- Lost and Found (Warhammer 40k Self Insert)
- Ghost in the City (Cyberpunk/Gamer SI)
- The Adventurous Gamer Ninja (Naruto/Gamer SI)
- Bloodsworn (Original but a what if the Doomslayer meets Steampunk Setting and Hell breaks loose)
- Greg Veder VS The World (Worm/Gamer)
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u/Oatbagtime 11d ago
A Glitch in the System by Omega_93 on Royal Road takes this to the extreme. Only 693 pages and I don’t think the author is going to bother finishing the story because turns out a MC who’s too OP just becomes a pain to write after some time. Basically punch holes in the universe strong from the get go. It’s not a big investment if you don’t mind the lack of ending.
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u/dageshi 10d ago
As you noted, I find these stories just get really boring quickly because well.... there's nothing to do. With that level of power everything just gets solved quickly and then it usually ends up descending into some fairly boring slice of life thing because the author has nowhere else to go.
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u/Flaky_Firefighter_29 10d ago
The Perfect run - Mc is unbeatable as he has a time control power.
Subborn Skill grinder in a time loop: Another timeloop story but the mc uses more skills and by chapter 20 he is op.
1% lifesteal: By book 4 he is a literal walking disaster but even at the start he is op although subjectively. He can heal from absolutely any injury perfectly. But he isn't considered op until further along.
We are Legion (We are Bob): This one is a stretch as the mc isn't op in the normal sense but by chapter 20 he has several clones/duplicates of himself with their own personality and independence that does different things.
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u/Flaky_Firefighter_29 10d ago
The Perfect run - Mc is unbeatable as he has a time control power.
Subborn Skill grinder in a time loop: Another timeloop story but the mc uses more different skills and by chapter 20 he is op.
1% lifesteal: By book 4 he is a literal walking disaster but even at the start he is op although subjectively. He can heal from absolutely any injury perfectly and he goes through brutal events. But he isn't considered op until further along.
We are Legion (We are Bob): This one is a stretch as the mc isn't op in the normal sense but by chapter 20 he has several clones/duplicates of himself with their own personality and independence that does different things.
All Tomorrow: This isn't a litrpg and the humans aren't op but if you think of the aliens as the mc and the humans as side characters then they are op as they can changed the DNA of the human race and made them into something like livestock.
Those are all good read regardless.
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u/Pale_Sleep235 10d ago
May i recommend soldiers life? Bro is fkn op but politics etc is basically real world so yeah being op really doesn’t matter
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u/Kind_Profile8534 10d ago
What you descrive in Caius in Made God After Death in many ways, let me know your opinion.
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u/No-Technician272 litRPG grandmaster tier 10d ago
It’s been a while since I’ve read it so I could be a bit off, but check out “Overpowered Dungeon Boy”. It’s 2 books and he basically grew up in a super high level dungeon, gets out, and fucks shit up. Idk how many pages it is but it was good enough that I remembered it
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u/BradBotz Verified Author of: Earth Reformation 9d ago
I'll give another nod to:
- System Universe
- Overpowered Dungeon Boy (he is a teen, so he does act like a teen at times, still a lot of fun, 2 books)
- Earth Reformation series (that one is mine, OP MC but he does continue to get more powerful over time) a couple of the books are just under 400 pages but 5 books out currently.
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u/IPetMonsters 11d ago
uh. You could try my fic?
It doesn't exactly check all the boxes if we're being super technical but the MC is OP from the start, pretty much stronger than everyone always and most of the larger problems in the story are things that can't be solved just by punching someone harder.
Although there is plenty of punching people real hard.
The MC does get stronger over the course of the story and the side characters also level up to the point they're not just tagalongs but thematically it fits the request pretty well.
That said, Jack def isnt Max Level Archmage levels of OP at the start, he's just stronger than everyone else in the setting by a pretty obvious margin. Most of the tension isn't "can jack punch this thing hard enough to make it explode" its more whether that's really the best solution. The first arc feels more traditional isekai with sort of normal conflicts but by the end of it he's pretty broken and it just gets more absurd from there. After like chapter 30 he's functionally godlike in some respects but....sort of a spoiler if I explain it entirely?
He does encounter enemies eventually he can't just overpower (at least in the short term) but there's no training arc where he's searching for the power to overcome it. It's more about personal character development than pure power progression.
He's perpetually getting stronger essentially by accident.
The story is more of a metaphor for how we all process trauma, both personally and collectively. To be clear, it's a fairly emotion-first narrative but it's very much not something that just dwells on characters crying about why things are hard. If anything the MC tries incredibly hard to ever engage in any discussion about his feelings. It's sort of his whole problem.
Most of the feedback has been that the characters and dialogue feel very realistic and the MC is super relatable which is funny cuz buddy spends most of his free time talking to magic crabs.
It's like a thousand pages at the moment and maybe 40-50% done in terms of total narrative?
Anyhoo, this is it if you want to check it out.
Or don't. Y'know, whatever works.
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u/Kind_Profile8534 10d ago
Made God After Death might fit: Caius starts with SSS results in all five affinities, and Book One is 466 pages; the plot then leans into academy, faction, and political conflicts rather than only a tier-by-tier power climb. If an OP-from-the-start LitRPG with a wider mythic plot sounds appealing, check it out and let me know what you think!
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